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I think at least by September, the Fed will lower rates.

Maybe there's a spectrum.

Why do some societies enshrine private property? I think it may have to do with a lack of trust. Maybe it first started in chaotic times. Then once th...

So the US GDP is down and initial jobless claims are up. Wall St celebrates. Isn't that weird? The reason Wall St is happy is that it means Powell may...

I think it's because LaPlace lived during the advent of mechanistic thinking, and contributed heavily to it, so his universe was kind of like a pool t...

I agree. I guess where I was headed is that an idealist can also be a determinist. LD can be revised to know everything about a universe that is essen...

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I really have no idea. All I know is that quantum mechanics is supposed to be an argument against the LD. I don't know if that argument prevails or no...

Yea, I guess the revision is that however it works, LD knows how it works. That's if you limit LD to so-called physical events, which automatically ex...

I think that's kind of what Chalmers was doing. That would make the LD irrelevant to the issue of free will, right?

Huge corporations can be innovative, though. Apple, AT&T, IBM etc. But they were all in a social setting that fostered innovation because of growth.

Chalmers adapted LD to accommodate quantum physics by just making it open ended. In other words, the demon knows how events unfold, however that may b...

Not determined in the same way?

Right. The South succeeded when Lincoln was elected. SC then took Ft Sumter. Many predicted that Lincoln wouldn't start a war, but would just let the ...

Potential is a concept that's long fascinated me. If you hold a penny above a vat of oil, then drop it, it will proceed at a relatively slow speed dow...

The war started when Lincoln sent supply ships to Fort Sumter, which had been a federal fort, now seized by SC. SC fired on the supply ships and Linco...

Leibniz envisioned innate concepts as latent, being brought into being through a developmental path. The kneecap is an example of that. A baby is born...

What they do is slice the donut into as many pieces as there are people present. If there are 300 people in attendance at the conference, they have to...

That's another reason a collective would need a chieftain or monarch. So maybe private property is a requirement for democracy. Ownership laws are tak...

That's an interesting passage. It would stand as an argument against slavery. About 25% of the people in Aristotle's world were enslaved. He's saying ...

The co-creation thing doesn't belong to any particular system. It shows up in a lot of the cool ones, though

If you ask Antony questions, he's more than happy to engage and isn't at all dogmatic. Not much of a gatekeeper.

Gotta be careful with that stuff!

My false eyelashes are making it hard for me to read.

Wayfarer and I were talking about how Schopenhauer can be taken as phenomenology, although Schop himself didn't seem to think of it that way. We know ...

I agree. I have my biases. For me, it's a step in the right direction to at least recognize that. It makes you more mentally flexible. It allows you t...

You're doing what Witt warned against: you're giving in to the desire to see the world from a vantage point you can't have. But there wouldn't be much...

Genius poor guy.

I think it's the other way around. Will is represented as 1) your own body, and 2) the world. Schopenhauer is along the lines of phenomenology. He fol...

Schopenhauer was a hard determinist. He said this was a source of solace. Whatever the human race is, it was bound to be, since the beginning of time.

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So maybe the way I phrased the question gave me the answer I agree with? Sam asked it if AI art can be meaningful with meaninglessness input. If he'd ...

I think the human mind is usually a tool of the emotions. This forum shows how people generally start with the answers they're invested emotionally in...

I guess I am? How does it create such a detailed answer? Is it quoting someone in particular?

I know, but how?

That's freaking bizarre. Who's viewpoint is that?

That's true. So AI becomes another tool, not a competing intellect. My view is based on people seeing my work and reading complex messages into it. An...

True, I just meant that money is power during our time. In a feudal society, military prowess was power. Knowledge can be power in a theocracy or wher...

Ask it if AI generated art can be meaningful if the input is meaningless.

This can be true, but not necessarily. Look at this image: https://i.imgur.com/hSlhbQd.jpeg All sorts of meaning could be projected onto it, but my in...

I know, and it seems exponential. HG Wells thought the species might split, between those who keep technology and those who retrogress. I think that's...

I was thinking of intention as in a desire to create something meaningful. An artist might not have any particular meaning in mind, or even if they do...

Bronze age cultures were no-growth. They remained stagnant for centuries. One assumes new ideas appeared from time to time, but died, possibly because...

I agree with your point, but might disagree with this detail. I don't think intention is a requirement of artistic output. An artist may not have anyt...

I think I'm starting to understand what you're saying.

Cool. If you're cut for time, 2.4 and 2.5 are the sections where subjectivism is discussed: that tendency to oppose the subject and object.

If you get a few minutes I wonder if you could give this article a read and tell me what you think?

To me, it's just obvious that the brain is creating a unified experience out of a flood of discrete sensory input. I think for some, that's direct rea...

Yep. You're not less than normal, there is no normal.

I understand what you mean. Elon Musk has Asperger's. He's been my hero ever since I learned that, because I do too.